Theme development

The breadcrumb shows up fine. The rest of the theme looks fine(it's a varient of goofy and can be found here http://halo.celticess.net) but someone sent me a private message(my sons home room teacher amusingly enough). I couldn't see it. I could see my alias and the persons name, the breadcrumb/nav at top and bottom but the text was all black. I can't see any clues as to what the css should have to fix this issue. Is it something in the drupal or common css I need to change and import or can I do it in the style.css?

In the teaser, I just want to display the title and description followed by a read more link. (I do not want to display the image in the teaser.) But $content, $node->body and $node->teaser all return the image concatenated to the description. How can I return just the description?

at this moment there's somewhat curious with it.
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I am quite lost with my site and need a new developer. Is there anyone who is interested? I have been using templates right now that are really supposed to be for a newsletter but I am lost. My site is http://www.ourfrugalwinningcircle.net

Thank you,

Shari

I am trying to create a new theme by editing the bluemarine theme. I may be going about this the wrong way, but I am trying to config Drupal to match a pre-defined layout. As such, I am doing most of the editing to the xtemplate.xtmpl file instead of just playing with the css file. (Default size/layout for left side column menu and also top header. Placing most of my edits in the <!-- BEGIN: logo --> portion of the template, and then wrapping the rest of the Drupal page in a div, and shifting that over x pixels to match the size of the column. That part works. The problem is that I am getting extra white space between the images I am using in the menu. It seems like there is extra padding set up or extra white space set up, I can't tell. But where the images are supposed to be touching, there is a few pixel gap. It just happens on the top/bottom of the image, not on the side. I have tried using tables, p's, br's, but it happens with all of them. I could force them all into place by assigning strict x,y coords but I would rather not. I have tried commenting out/changing all instances of padding, margins, etc that I can think but no luck. Am I just missing something obvious? The same code works fine out of Drupal so I assume it has to do with the Drupal css, but cannot find it in either the css files in misc, or the css file for the theme itself. Any help would be appreciated.

hi all..